We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
esrager (s.xii2/4)
Cite this entry

The form erager is a cross reference to the following entry:

esrager (s.xii2/4)

Cite this entry
erager;  esragier  
  FEW:  rabies 10,9b Gdf:  esragier 1 3,560c GdfC: ∅ TL: esragier 2 3,1278 DEAF:  rage (*)  DMF:  esrager  TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS: ∅

v.intrans.

1 to go mad, out of one's mind, become demented: 
( 1194-99; MS: s.xiii2 ) Por poi que de faim n’eragerent  ambroise 4350
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii1 ) De diable est sun cors espris [...]. Si fort le faseit esrager Que nuls n’osat a lui parler  S Edm Pass ANTS 1529
2 emotion to go mad, enter into a frenzy of uncontrollable emotion: 
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim ) Quant vi mes compainuns ocire, Esrager quidai, tant oi grant ire  Gui War 4702
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  Tant les travaille li adverser Que les ad fait tuiz esrager  S Modw 8003

v.refl.

1 to go mad, out of one's mind, become demented: 
( MS: s.xii2/4 ) Tut fol, pur quei t’esrages?  Roland 286
( 1267; MS: c.1300 ) Dunt il resemblent a l’humme ki se esrage, Ki sa force met e grant peine Ses membres de saker demeine Od les denz  Lum Lais ANTS 3996
2emotionto go mad, enter into a frenzy of uncontrollable emotion: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim ) A poi ke de dol ne s’esrage  Ipom BFR 4440
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 ) Lors s'esragent debles tuz vifs Ke unt cest aime issi perdue  Mir N-D 111.XXIV.186
( c.1200; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Mut les eschaufa le curage Amur, ke chescune s’esrage Por poi por cuveiter l'enfant  Josaphaz2 1808
( 1360-79; MS: s.xivex ) quant par cas ascun damage Luy vient du perte ou de lesure, Tantost come forsené s'esrage  GOWER Mirour 4012

p.p. as a.

emotionmad, in a frenzy of uncontrollable emotion: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Dame nel poet veer ke n’en seit esragee  Horn 861
( c.1185 )  L’espee tent, mult est irez, Sor li curt cum esragez  Proth ANTS 4300
♦ (of an animal) fierce, ferocious, wild: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Bien veit ferir Guillaume comme beuf esragiez  Rom de Rou wace i 64.1478
( 1212; MS: 1212-13 ) Li ours, qui fut proef esragiez D’ire e d’angoisse e de famine  Dial Greg SATF 9312
( MS: s.xiv1 ) Mempris le fiz Maddan regna .xx.anz e vesq' en male vie e fu devoré de lous eragés en une foreste  Reis Britt foltys 47 B
( MS: s.xivm ) les bestes que erent devant ceo come esragés et que soleient la gent manger  A-N Piety 48
♦pathol.(of a dog) mad, rabid, affected with rabies: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xiiiin )  Mais veirs est que li vilain dit: 'Chien esragiez lunges ne vit'  Rom de Rou wace i 209.1310

See also:

arager  enrager  esragieement  rager 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
erager